Earlier this week, Kanye made a stop in Nashville, the very city where Taylor’s country music career first began to pick up a decade ago, on his ‘Saint Pablo’ tour, where he couldn’t resist making a dig at the ‘Shake It Off’ singer.

Kanye told the crowd - who are also heard chanting “fuck Taylor Swift” in video footage from the concert - that he wanted “to hear that so loud in Nashville”, adding: “So many people told me, ‘You’ve gotta take that line out of the song. You gotta play it safe.’

“This is what rap music is; this is what art is. This song is how I feel.”

Kanye and Taylor’s relationship is, frankly, a long and complicated one, but for those who need to be brought up to speed, click through the gallery below...

Taylor Swift And Kanye West: A Timeline Of Their Relationship

Taylor Swift And Kanye West: A Timeline Of Their Relationship

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1. VMAs 2009

It all began in 2009, when Kanye West made headlines all over the world by he interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs. S
he was collecting a prize for her ‘You Belong With Me’ music video, but ‘Ye clearly thought Beyoncé’s ‘You Belong With Me’ was a more worthy winner. The worst of it is, he famously told her ‘Imma let you finish’, and then didn’t let her finish.